Data Science for the Juvenile Court

Ubiquity, Abstraction, Absurdity

Is this data?

Human Driven Process

Spreadsheets are digital ledgers

Complex But Concrete

Galton’s Work on Regression to the mean. He was also a racist piece of garbage

Cloud Computing

Complex AND Abstract

Data science, what is it?

Data science, what is it?

• Data Science is the way we study the capture, storage, and transformation of data into information.

• It’s that complex stuff Marty talks about all the damn time. –Toastmasters, 2017

Data Scienctists

–Hadley Wickham, PhD

Data Science is

Using data to solve probelms

Data Science Tools

• Scoping the problem
• Collecting and cleaning the data
• Visualizing the Data
• Making predictions

Data Science Heirarchy

Like Maslow, but for data

What is Social Good?

If we work at 1100 S Hamilton, we work for the social good

What is Data Science for the Social Good?

Using data science to make the world a better place.

Data Science for the Social Good

• Identiying problems
• New Solutions
• Reproducing it to scale
• What would Data Science for the Juvenile Court Look Like?

Concrete Steps: What is Visualizing our Information?

Sepal Plot

• Shows us at a glance what the relationship is between flower parts across three species of flower
• What does our data show us?

Our Data, Visualized

Based on Diversion Data from 2012-2016

Methods

• Tidy Data
• Statisical Analysis
• Understaning the problem

Tools

The code behind this presentation

Data Science for the Juvenile Court

End Game: Explaining this!